Founding Dean and Professor, (part-time), Graduate School of Global Health Development, European Center for Peace and Development, UN University for Peace, Serbia: established the school, curriculum of the master’s degree in health management including syllabi and teaching the required courses, and designed the guidelines for academic affairs and curriculum in elderly care and family practice diploma and masters degrees.

1986-Present

PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL HEALTH MANAGEMENT LLC., - a consultancy firm in Health Systems Planning and Management, (registered in Florida, USA), President and Senior Consultant, managing international projects and offering consultancies.

2003- Present

STATE UNIVERSITY of NEW YORK AT ALBANY, , School of Public Health, Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior.

1983-2002

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

1983: Distinguished visiting lecturer, Public Health Program; and Joint Professor, Department of Comprehensive Medicine, College of Medicine; University of South Florida.

1984-2002: Professor of Health Policy and management and Director of International Health Programs, College of Public Health; University of South Florida.

Main Responsibilities at the University:

First full-time faculty, and member of the founding team of this fully accredited State College of Public Health that is serving the whole State of Florida.

Director of The College International Health Management Programs, this included directing the Annual International Health and Hospital Management and The Health Planning And Quality Management summer programs (11 weeks) 1983-2001, for international scholars, managing international projects, and offering seminars and courses overseas for senior officers from more than 70 countries.

Elected as President of the Faculty Assembly, and member of the College Executive Committee responsible for the college management, 1998-2000, elected as member of the University Senate, member of the University Faculty Union, and member of the Florida State Faculty Union (11 state universities)

Coordinator and Manager of affiliation agreements between the University and Universities of Bielefeld-Germany; Barbados Faculty of Medicine, University of West Indies; Institute of Health Management in Romania; School of Public Health in Krakow, Poland; Institute of Public Health, Moscow, Russia,; and the National School of Public Health, Greece. These affiliation agreements involved serving as a visiting professor, collaboration in curriculum building, teaching short courses and seminars, and exchange of faculty and students

These courses were offered to the college students at the masters and Ph.D. programs and international fellows at the certificate programs..

Teaching "Health Care Delivery and Organization" at the College of Medicine, 1984-1988, and joint professor of gerontology lecturing in social sciences and gerontology courses.

Supervision and direction of students for Masters and Ph.D studies serving as major professor, director or member of doctoral dissertation committees and master's research projects and theses at the colleges of public health, medicine and social sciences

Membership of University Committees:

Elected University Senator, 1997-2001, and member of its Committee on Faculty Standards, and university Honors and Awards Council

Elected as President of the Faculty Assembly, 1998-2000 and Chair of its Steering Committee, member of the college executive committee

Chair/member of the following committees: Strategic Planning; Faculty Appointment , Promotion and Tenure; Graduate Programs and Curriculum ; Students Admissions; Self Pre-Accreditation Study and two accreditation studies; Doctoral Program Planning; International committee; and distance learning and instructional methods.

* Member of Global Health Committee of the Associations of Schools of public Health , USA since 1992, initiated the affiliation agreement between the Association and the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER)

Joint Professor of Gerontology, College of Arts and Sciences, University of South Florida, 1997-2002

Visiting Professor, College of Medicine, Department of Comprehensive Medicine, University of South Florida, 1983-1987.

Adjunct associate professor, then Professor (Senior Associate), Johns Hopkins School Hygiene and Public Health, Department of International Health, 1980-1992.

Visiting Research Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Medicine, Riyadh University, 1980.

Lecturer of Health Services Administration and Epidemiology, Kuwait College of Health Sciences, 1975-1982.

Consultant, Ain Shams University, Egypt, Consultation on establishing the new Faculty of Public Health and Health Management.

December, 2007

Advisor, national school of Public Health, Athens, Greece, Workshop on:"Disasters and Mental Health”, Greece

November, 2007

Advisor, Ministerial Summit, Group on Earth Observations, and Representative of the World Federation of Public Health Associations, Cape Town, South Africa

September, 2007

Keynote Speaker to the Turkish Public Health Association Annual meeting, presentation on “ Global Challenges for Public Health in the 21 ST Century: Facing the challenges in Turkey”, Denezli, Turkey.

September, 2007

Advisor, Conference on Geospatial Information in the Americas, and representative of the World Federation of Public Health Associations to the conference, presented a paper on “Using Geospatial Information in Guiding Global and national Health Policies” Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

May, 2006

Organizer and Presenter, World Federation of Public Health Associations, Workshop on “ Planning for Human Resources in Health: Avoiding shortage and Oversupply”, during the World heath assembly, Geneva, Switzerland

2006-2007

Academic director and Adviser, master’s program in health management, university of Bahcesehir, Istanbul, turkey.

Senior Consultant on health policy and management on the project ofCooperation with The Private Sector and Accreditation to Implement Health Reform”, SPAAC, Egypt and the Ministry of Health and Population, funded by the Social Insurance fund.

2004

Elected as Chair, American Public Health Association International HealthSection (first time for a member to be elected twice for this position)

2004 –2007

Professor and academic adviser, American City University, Wyoming, USA and London, assisting in developing international branches for education on business and health administration.

2004 - 2005

Senior Adviser, Diamond Medical services (an HMO), Egypt

2004 - 2005

Senior adviser, Al-Massara Clinic and Hospital, Tripoli, Libya

2003- present

Adviser, African Council For Sustainable Health Development (ACOSHED- 22 African countries) on council strategies and Human resources in Health, Nigeria, and focal person/ adviser for establishing its branch in Egypt

2003

Organizer, World Federation of Public Health Associations on the Joint Project proposal with World health Organization on Hypertension Control.

Adviser, World Federation of Public Health Associations on “Globalization" and AIDS/HIV strategies” Annual World Health Assembly Meeting May 2002, Geneva, Switzerland

1999 – 2002

Government of Belize: Senior Health Adviser and member of its Delegation to the World Health Assembly meeting; advisor on Health Policy and Reform Implementation, development of the long range human resources plan for health professionals, educational and training plans to the year 2015, quality management program, and Strategic reform Plans.( funded by Inter American Development Bank- IDB)

1998

Government of Guyana, Consultant on Building and Managing Quality in Health Care, funded by Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

1999

Government of Barbados, Consultant, Strengthening District Health Services, funded by PAHO.

1998 -99

Government of Belize, Adviser on Hospital Management, converting the National Governmental Hospital into a public independent authority.

1998

Government of Kuwait, Adviser, Building National Health Insurance, and long range human resources development plans.

1998

Czech US-AID,, Partners for International Training and Education (PIET): Training professors on establishing a school of public health

1987 - 2001

Association of Schools of Public Health in the US: Member of its International Health Committee, and Senior Adviser on cooperation agreement with the Schools of Public Health in the European Region.

1997

European Economic Community: Consultant, Athens Conference on establishing a school of public health in Palestine.

1990 - present

World Federation of Public Health Associations: Member of Delegation to the World Health Assembly, 1992-present, Geneva, and member and reviewer of the Program Committee for its International Conferences in Bali, Indonesia 1994; Arusha, Tanzania, 1997; Bejing, China2000; Brighton , England2004; Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 2006, and Istanbul, Turkey 2009.

1996 - 2000

Adviser and Member of the Board of Global Relief Association, USA

1996 – 2000

Adviser and Member of the Board of College and University Partnership Program (CUPP) for International Educational Exchange And training in health policy and management ( Japan and Taiwan)

University of Bielefeld Health Sciences Center, Germany: Directing institutional agreement and teaching courses on "Quality Assurance in Hospitals" in Germany , and leading the new program for establishing quality assurance/ management in countries of East-Central Europe.

1991 - 1996

Riverside Hospital, Pasco County, Florida: Consultant on strategic planning for the hospital.

1988 – 2002

Florida Journal of Public Health: Senior Editor, and Editor of its bureau on "Public Health Around the Nation and the World".

1986 – present

American Public Health Association:, Chair of the International Health Section 1992-1994 and Member of the Governing Council, chair elect, Secretary, 1986-1992, member of the Inter Sectional Council, 1992-1996, the International Human Rights Committee 2003- 2007, International Health Section chair elect 2004-2006; and chair 2006-08

1980 – present

Secretariat General of Health for the Arab Gulf Countries and its member countries:(Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Oman): Adviser and Founder of the Secretariat Health Planning Committee( 1976-1988), assisted the building of planning units, established the Unified Health Policies for the member countries, conducted annual seminars for senior health planners and managers, and consultations and studies to member countries on health policy reform and planning, health information systems, hospital management, quality management and human resources development.

Haiti, Albert Schweitzer Hospital & Program in Haiti: Consultant, Strengthening the program management and advisor on staff development and continuing education.

1984- 2000

Florida Department of Health, consultancies on primary care, state health planning, quality of public health services, elderly care and human resources development in the health field.

1979- 1983

Director and founder, Office for National Health Planning, Kuwait, directly under the Minster of Health.; conducted studies, wrote the Kuwait Health Plan 1982-2000; (450 pages, four volumes ) including national health policies, strategies for health programs; 18- year hospital building and facilities development plan; 18-year health manpower plan; managing the cooperation international projects with the US Department of Health and Human Services and The U.K department of Health and Social Security;; and conducting management training for senior officials.

1984- 1986

Team leader, Quality Assurance Program Development in Kuwaitmanaging the contract with the Univ. of South Florida, including program design, development of standards, and training of quality assurance officers